If Bin Laden was an agent, the US would never say

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Friday July 31, 2009 · 7:19 PM PDT

2009/07/31 · 19:19

Wow. Big claim there by a former FBI translator to the effect that Bin Laden worked for the "US" until 2001. Is it true? I have no idea; but I'm glad this gives me an excuse to address the JFK assassination.

The transcript of the January 24th meeting between Warren Commission had a member, Boggs or Russsell (not sure), asking Allen Dulles whether the FBI and CIA would admit the truth if Oswald had been an agent for either agency. Dulles said no.

We are facing the same situation here.

One thing is worth noting, though, in defense of 9-11 conspiracy theorists (I'm not one) to the "Birther" one: The Hawaiian Department of Health has no prior history of lying.

The CIA, well, no need to explain.

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Monday July 13, 2009 · 9:12 PM PDT

2009/07/13 · 21:12

We were told yesterday in a diary here that the NBC Juctice correspondent had told Chris Matthews on Sunday that the Obama administration had found no grounds to detain any Guantanamo prisoner indefinitely.

This information is contradicted by White House officials quoted in a New York Times article already online and to be printed tomorrow:

Officials said the most problematic group was made up of detainees to be held without trial, who are deemed by the administration to be too dangerous to release but who cannot be tried because evidence against them may not be usable in court. Administration officials say they hope this group will be as small as possible, acknowledging opposition by civil liberties groups.

But they said they were convinced there were some detainees who must be detained without charges because of their backgrounds, like extensive time in a militant training camp or a long association with a terrorist group.

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Saturday June 13, 2009 · 6:20 PM PDT

2009/06/13 · 18:20

It's unbelievable the evidence being thrown around by anonymous blog commenters allegedly proving that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole the elections that just took place in Iran.

Look. I think he stole them. But that thought comes from my heart. I have a hunch that a man who denies the holocaust and his ayatollah buddies are capable of anything. But moronic evil Presidents have won elections, even in United States of America (See Kerry vs. Bush, 2004). So I keep my hunch to myself.

"A poll conducted by John Doe in early June showed Ahmedinejad's rival ahead!" some say."

But they say nothing about who owns the polling firm (is it owned by exiles? independent experts? radical Ahmadinejad buddies? We have no idea.

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Wednesday June 10, 2009 · 6:00 PM PDT

2009/06/10 · 18:00

The sensationalist websites Politico and Huffington Post (among others) have spread the falsehood that Sarah Palin called David Letterman, as a person, "pathetic," when in fact she referred to the particular joke (i.e., that she dresses like a slutty flight attendant) Letterman had made the previous night.

The goal of news websites these days is to attract readers by posting shocking, bold headlines, even if they're not accurate. "Palin despises Letterman" is a much more spicy narrative than "Palin did not like one joke Letterman made."

In fact, the Huffington Post broke the rules of journalism by re-arranging Palin's words to make it seem as if she attacked Letterman, and not his joke.

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Sunday May 17, 2009 · 12:56 PM PDT

2009/05/17 · 12:56

I must remain consistent.

I opposed the release of detainee abuse photographs on the grounds that this kind of revelation would anger Muslim radicals who would in turn be likely to murder or attempt to murder our troops stationed in their countries.

Today, GQ inexplicably revealedthat Donald Rumsfeld referred to U.S invasions into Muslim nations around the time of the Iraq war as "Crusades," and quoted the Bible as well.

The Muslim world is very sensitive in regard to this historic battle between Christians and Muslims (The Crusades); therefore GQ should not have gone there. Now our troops may die.

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Tuesday March 03, 2009 · 7:42 PM PST

2009/03/03 · 19:42

I often complain about we progressives posting crap such as "Sarah Palin's son is not hers" or "Hillary is playing the race card because she said LBJ helped MLK move the civil rights movement forward."

Republicans can easily be taken care of by simply telling the truth and nothing but the truth; I believe the saying that truth has a liberal bias.

Having said this, I would like to draw your attention to this Playboy Magazine story by two bloggers that inspired numerous diaries all over the progressive blogosphere (including this jewel in our Daily Kos) to spread the rumor that Rick Santelli was linked to the powerful Koch family in a conspiracy to start a "tea party" movement against the governmental mortgage relief plan.

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Friday February 27, 2009 · 5:52 PM PST

2009/02/27 · 17:52

...he grants immunity to the criminals who tortured detainees during the Bush administration.

The progressive group Accountability Now is asking for ideas as to what candidates to support and oppose in 2010 and beyond.

This would be achieved, in this particular case, by finding a progressive candidate who does not advocate whitewash.

Nancy Pelosi recently criticized Leahy's proposed fact-finding commission "on the ground that such a Commission would improperly immunize lawbreakers and thus foreclose prosecutions," as reported.

Arianna getting sued?

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Monday February 23, 2009 · 5:56 PM PST

2009/02/23 · 17:56

I told you guys to stop seeing racism in everything. Playing the race card has gotten The Huffington Post in trouble after the website found a video somewhere, showing Fox right-wing pundit John Gibson comparing Eric Holder to a monkey, and blindly passed it on.

Now Gibson is threatening to sue.

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Saturday February 21, 2009 · 7:33 PM PST

2009/02/21 · 19:33

Time.com is listing this site as one of the 25 most "overrated blogs" that exist.

I think Time exaggerates, but at the same time believe that calling non-cultist members "PUMA" and suggesting that Sarah Palin's son is not hers have contributed to this kind of perception.

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Sunday January 25, 2009 · 11:16 AM PST

2009/01/25 · 11:16

Why do some call Kirsten Gillibrand, the new NY Senator, a centrist? The Nation has called her a centrist, maybe using their own ideology as the standard. I saw the label in major publications as well.

But being pro-gun and anti-illegal-immigration does not negate the fact that she voted in 2007 to redeploy Iraq troops within 90 days of said vote. How centrist is that? There are more than two issues in the world. When the totality of Gillinbrand's statements and votes (not just guns and immigration) were analyzed by the independent political website ontheissues.org, the site came up with the following graph illustrating her ideology:

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Sunday November 30, 2008 · 8:58 AM PST

2008/11/30 · 08:58

Barack Obama is about to (unconstitutionally) appoint Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, despite the fact that, as reported here, she is inelligible for the spot according to the emoluments clause.

It is very sad that our president, who was chief of the Harvard Law Review, is either completely ignorant of pretending to do so regarding our most sacred document.

Take action.

Discovery channel: We just debunked JFK conspiracy theory

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Friday November 14, 2008 · 2:30 AM PST

2008/11/14 · 02:30

A new analysis commissioned by the Discovery channel and led by the lone nuts of the Sixth Floor Museum allegedly proves that John F. Kennedy was shot from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository, and nowhere else.

One big flaw that is evident to me right off the bat is that they claim to have recreated "the wounds" to Kennedy's body before conducting a blood splatter technique, whatever that is; but Parkland and military Bethesda doctors, for example, wildly disagree as to the entrance and exit of the throat wound, while many witnesses also claim to have seen a big gaping wound to the back of Kennedy's brain, while others place it more towards the side and a minority place it toward the front (the official version).

It has also been previously determined that two brains purported to be Kennedy's were examined in the days following the autopsy: The real brain, on November 25th, and the fake brain, somewhere around November 29th adn December 2nd.

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